Robert Hermosillo
@roberthermosillo.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain.
Groundbreaking work by @drjuliamoser.bsky.social using ultra high spatial resolution fMRI in infants 😯
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
www.biorxiv.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Groundbreaking work by @drjuliamoser.bsky.social using ultra high spatial resolution fMRI in infants 😯
Reposted by Robert Hermosillo
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
www.biorxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
Mapping infant brains with precision today = insights into developmental health tomorrow. Incredible work by @drjuliamoser.bsky.social introduces precision functional mapping for infants. 👶 #Neuroimaging
Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🐣👶🧠
🐣👶🧠
August 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Mapping infant brains with precision today = insights into developmental health tomorrow. Incredible work by @drjuliamoser.bsky.social introduces precision functional mapping for infants. 👶 #Neuroimaging
Reposted by Robert Hermosillo
Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🐣👶🧠
🐣👶🧠
August 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🐣👶🧠
🐣👶🧠
This might be related to the feelings of joy we observed when stimulating the ventromedial PFC, which is also within the salience network: bsky.app/profile/drda...
Crying and sadness induced by stimulation to L anterior insula (a human case study). How remarkable.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33511338/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33511338/
August 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This might be related to the feelings of joy we observed when stimulating the ventromedial PFC, which is also within the salience network: bsky.app/profile/drda...
Reposted by Robert Hermosillo
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
A man who had severe depression for more than 30 years has "experienced joy" after undergoing bespoke brain stimulation.
Brain implant lets man 'experience joy' for the first time in decades
A device that has been likened to a pacemaker for the brain has given a man with severe depression great relief
www.newscientist.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Reposted by Robert Hermosillo
Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
August 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
Reposted by Robert Hermosillo
Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression
Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.
*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.
Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.
1/2
Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.
*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.
Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.
1/2
August 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression
Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.
*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.
Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.
1/2
Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.
*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.
Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.
1/2
Reposted by Robert Hermosillo
What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!
Reposted by Robert Hermosillo
Then we turned on his minimally invasive brain pace-maker and this happened. Thirty months later, his depression remains in full remission.
lnkd.in/gb4WdZMQ
lnkd.in/gFZV4zBp
#Neuroscience #MentalHealthInnovation #FunctionalMRI #PrecisionMedicine #DepressionResearch #PACE #BrainStimulation
lnkd.in/gb4WdZMQ
lnkd.in/gFZV4zBp
#Neuroscience #MentalHealthInnovation #FunctionalMRI #PrecisionMedicine #DepressionResearch #PACE #BrainStimulation
August 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Then we turned on his minimally invasive brain pace-maker and this happened. Thirty months later, his depression remains in full remission.
lnkd.in/gb4WdZMQ
lnkd.in/gFZV4zBp
#Neuroscience #MentalHealthInnovation #FunctionalMRI #PrecisionMedicine #DepressionResearch #PACE #BrainStimulation
lnkd.in/gb4WdZMQ
lnkd.in/gFZV4zBp
#Neuroscience #MentalHealthInnovation #FunctionalMRI #PrecisionMedicine #DepressionResearch #PACE #BrainStimulation
Reposted by Robert Hermosillo
This is the future. The reality of biological #psychiatry. We listen to the patient, create a personalized map of their brain, use algorithms to disrupt stuck networks, and adapt the stimulation over time while continuing our quest to understand those networks.
Now with PFM, prior cortical stim work by @ziad-nahas.bsky.social for depression could be patient specific.
We developed the end-to-end minimally invasive PACE used by @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social to place electrodes directly on Mike's salience, default, fronto-parietal, and action mode networks.
We developed the end-to-end minimally invasive PACE used by @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social to place electrodes directly on Mike's salience, default, fronto-parietal, and action mode networks.
August 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is the future. The reality of biological #psychiatry. We listen to the patient, create a personalized map of their brain, use algorithms to disrupt stuck networks, and adapt the stimulation over time while continuing our quest to understand those networks.
When nothing worked, this did. Precision functional mapping is here for treatment-resistant depression. This is what hope looks like. 💡
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
When nothing worked, this did. Precision functional mapping is here for treatment-resistant depression. This is what hope looks like. 💡
"The [number of NSF trainees] supported would drop from 95,700 undergrads, grad students, and postdocs during this FY to 21,400." Not only will this eviscerate the future scientific workforce, but science will grind to a halt. Trainees are the workhorses of research.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"The [number of NSF trainees] supported would drop from 95,700 undergrads, grad students, and postdocs during this FY to 21,400." Not only will this eviscerate the future scientific workforce, but science will grind to a halt. Trainees are the workhorses of research.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Excited to be a part of this team working on the next generation of pain treatment led by and Alexander Herman and @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social and @drdamienfair.bsky.social
Alert!!!!
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Excited to be a part of this team working on the next generation of pain treatment led by and Alexander Herman and @drdaviddarrow.bsky.social and @drdamienfair.bsky.social
Some seriously impressive neuroscience by @benjaminkay.bsky.social showing how stimulant use effects the brain.
My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!
May 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Some seriously impressive neuroscience by @benjaminkay.bsky.social showing how stimulant use effects the brain.
To all the scientists out there who need to hear this right now, you are part of a legacy of scientists who changed the world. Keep going.
January 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
To all the scientists out there who need to hear this right now, you are part of a legacy of scientists who changed the world. Keep going.
Our paper “A Precision Functional Atlas of Personalized Network Topography and Probabilities” is out now in Nature Neuroscience! The MIDB Precision Brain Atlas is a collection of individualized neural network maps from n~10,000 and probabilistic atlases (1/8) rdcu.be/dCvuC
March 26, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Our paper “A Precision Functional Atlas of Personalized Network Topography and Probabilities” is out now in Nature Neuroscience! The MIDB Precision Brain Atlas is a collection of individualized neural network maps from n~10,000 and probabilistic atlases (1/8) rdcu.be/dCvuC